The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-06-09
GEORGIA GLEANINGs.

Inc cotton In lower Georgia is
very forward for the season and is
looking well.
The M. & N. Ga. r. r. Co., has
returned its property to the Comp
troller-General for taxation at $780,
$4,000
The Michigan syndicate propose to
put the latest improved machinery at
their yard in Tallapoosa, and turn
out pressed brick by the million.
Mr.. Yarbrough was struck by
lightning and killed during the storm
Thursday, in Chulio district near
Rome.
Henry Martin, young negro en-
ployed on the new capitol, in At.
lanta, fell distance of seventy.five
feet from the top of the building
Friday afternoon and was killed.
Henry Pope, colored, has been
sentenced to be hung on July LIST for
rape in Chattooga county, Ga. He
was positively identified by Miss
Kendrick.
A cyclone passed through Camp
bellton, Carroll and Coweta counties
on the LIST inst, unroofng and blow
ing down houses and doing a good
deal OF damage to property and crops.
William j. Neel, of Gainesville,
Ga, in graduating class Of IS, in
the Georgetown University School
of Law, last week, was awarded the
first honor, a cash prize of one hun
dred dollars.
The Georgia Bleachery Company,
OF Augusta, has been temporarily or.
ganized with Charles Estes as Presi.
dent, and James ?. Verdery, Secre.
tary. A committee has been ap.
pointed to select a site for their plant
which is to have a daily capacity Of
from $4,000 to $4,000 yards OF cloth
The Peoples National Bank Of
Americas, in the past four months
under the management of President
Winsor and Cashier Fielder, has made
a profit Of 20 per cent. ON its capital
stock, and some stock was recently
sold at l2O, the highest price it even
commanded since its organization.
The granite business of Lithonia
has now grown to be very impor-
tant industry. Over 400 hands are
now employed at the various quar-
ries at that place, and still they can
scarcely keep up with their orders
There is boom on Lithonia such as
she has never seen or dreamed OF
before.
A few days ago mule belonging
to j. b. Scott, of Americas, stretch
ed himself on the ground, and, to all
appearance died. A chain was put
around the animals neck and he was
dragged two miles to the woods and
left to the care of the buzzards. Next
morning Mr.. Scott was astonished to
find the dead mule alive and cheer
tul, standing at the lot gate waiting
to be fed.
Capt. Whitsitt, of Ringgold, re-
Gently penetrated a cave, the exist
ence of which he had known of for
a month, which may prove bonan-
"a. Alter leaving daylight behind
him tor distance of sixty feet, he
came upon the relics of work done
when the Indians held sway there.
There were the extinguished torches,
the charred embers, and the broken
crucible of soapstone, and better than
all, the richest silver ore surrounded
him. Tradition has it that there was
a cave known to the red men, TO which
they resorted for the manufacture of
silver. The lost key may have at last
been found, and the treasury may
yet be unlocked.
As A. j. Sweat was taking his
family out to visit his wife's father,
Mr.. Thigpen, on Wednesday last,
about four miles from Waycross, he
encountered large alligator about
seven or eight feet long lying stretch
ed across the road. His gatorship,
manlfesting no disposition to yield
even portion of the public highway
to passers, Mr.. Sweat alighted from
his buggy and having no weapons at
hand with which he could force his
way by his uncomely foe, resorted to
coaxing, by tapping him a few times
with his buggy whip. This only
tended to kindle the reptiles anger
and with blowings and groanings he
commenced swelling until he reach
ed such large proportions that Mr..
Sweat, his wife and the team all be-
came frightened. After some DELHI
Grafton, however, by all parties in
terested, the gator got out of the
road, and Mr.. and Mrs. Sweat went
on their way rejoicing.
Wonderful Cures.
W. d. Hoyt & Co., Wholesale and Retail
Druggists of Rome, Ga. say We have been
selling DIR. Kings New Discovery, Electric